In this episode, we follow the Annabel Lee legend backward: from modern ghost tours to nineteenth-century poetry, from pirate treasure maps to academic footnotes, from Sullivan's Island beaches to a forgotten corner of a graveyard. What emerges is not a simple ghost story, but an obsession—shared by scholars, storytellers, and an entire city convinced that something precious was buried in the South Carolina Lowcountry and must be found.

Edgar Allan Poe's Charleston by Christopher Byrd Downey

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle By C.G. Jung

Unburied Treasure: Edgar Allan Poe in the South

Carolina Lowcountry

Scott Peeples, Michelle Van Parys

Southern Cultures, Vol. 22, No. 2

Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles

The New York Evening Post

The Charleston News and Courier

The Sullivan's Island Edition of The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Durham and Elizabeth Verner Hamilton

The Descent has led us to Charleston, and to a haunted historic theatre where we finally uncover a clue—one that may bring us closer to the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe.

Sources:

The Ghosts of Charleston by Julian Buxton

Charleston Ghosts: Hauntings in the Holy City by James Caskey

Complex, archetype and symbol in the psychology of C.G. Jung by Jolande Jacobi

The Mad Booths of Maryland By Preston Kimmel

The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe by Scott Peeples

Nevermore! Edgar Allan Poe- The Final Mystery by Julian Wiles

In this episode we visit the most haunted house of Edgar Allan Poe and then retrace his path to the threshold of a secret world.

Sources that were either referenced directly or consulted during the writing of this episode:

Ghosts of Philadelphia by Charles J. Adams III

A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak

The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe: Nevermore in Baltimore by David F. Gatlin

True Tales of the Unknown: The Uninvited, published in 1989 and edited by Sharon Jones

The Ghostly Register by Arthur Meyers

The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City by Scott Peeples

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

Haunting Poe: His Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond by Christopher P. Semtner

The Poe Shrine: Building the World's Finest Edgar Allan Poe Collection by Christopher P. Semtner